Current Peeves:

[rinue]

1. The "woman who has sex like a man" character type.

2. People calling things urban fantasy which are in fact stories of urban characters who escape to pastoral fantasy worlds. A la, for instance, C.S. Lewis's Narnia series, a cornerstone exemplar of traditional fantasy, and something used to define the genre (not subgenre).

3. Ridiculous explanations for artificial gravity. Look, I know that it's difficult to make a movie or tv show in which there's no gravity - we're not in space, and you'd need a budget you probably can't get. I can forgive you for having gravity. Just stop drawing my attention to it with explanations that don't hold up even to people who've never taken physics. And really don't flaunt your bad explanation by putting the word "gravity" in the title of your show, having your characters talk about it all the time, and throwing internal consistency out the window every time you have the opportunity to do a flashy effect. Jesus Christ.

Comments

[achates.livejournal.com]

There's a "woman who has sex like a man" character type? Is it intentional or just people being subconciously stupid?

[rinue.livejournal.com]

Super intentional, and often stated explicitly. It's a fad of the last 10 or 15 years of cable television, and is now making it to network.

[hipgunslinger.livejournal.com]

I always rather liked the centrifugal gravity thing...
But then I just DID watch 2001 the other night.

[rinue.livejournal.com]

Oh, definitely. It's the only method with any kind of scientific backing. But I just saw an episode of something that says artificial gravity works because nanomachines in the astronauts' clothing is drawn to nanomachines in the ship (so, see, all the people are affected by gravity, but not vomit or specific inanimate objects that they want to show floating around in CG). And yet their shorts don't fall off.

[oddment.livejournal.com]

I'm perplexed by the first one as well.